Name: Professor Elleke Boehmer
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Humanities and Business
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 June 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker s: Dr Donald Drakeman (University of Notre Dame), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Professor Sally Maitlis (Saïd Business School), Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Organiser: Dr John Miles (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Callaloo Conference
Date: 23 November 2016, 19:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Margo Crawford (Cornell University), Vievee Francis (Dartmouth College), LeRonn Brooks (City University of New York), Dagmawi Woubshet (Cornell University), John Akomfrah, Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths University of London), Nicole King (University of Reading), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University), Robert Reid-Pharr
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organiser: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

The Island
Date: 9 May 2017, 19:30 - 22:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Pegasus Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker s: Bishop Libby Lane (Church of England), Shaista Aziz, Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Santanu Das, India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Cambridge, 2018)
Date: 20 November 2019, 13:30 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker s: Yasmin Khan (Oxford), Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Professor Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: TORCH Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Biographer and the Wife
Date: 2 December 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Haldane Room
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker s: Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Oxford Minds Lecture - Belonging: What the social sciences can learn from the humanities
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom Webinar - registration required
Organisers: Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)

Oxford Minds Lecture - Belonging: What the social sciences can learn from the humanities
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom Webinar
Organisers: Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Criticism today--the state of the art
Date: 15 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rob Nixon (Princeton), Ato Quayson (Stanford), Poulomi Saha (Berkeley), Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Robert Young (NYU)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Life-Writing Workshops
Date: 18 November 2022, 10:30 - 11:30 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker s: Dr Kate Kennedy, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: White & Case Room,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool), Sarah Jilani (City, University of London), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 4/5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop II: Making Things Up
Date: 2 June 2023, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 26 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
Date: 26 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:15 (Saturday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer, and Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Why Life-Writing?'
Date: 22 November 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Monday 6 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Southern Lives Workshop
Date: 6 December 2021, 9:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: (hybrid event with online attendance option, TBA)
Organiser: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
Date: 20 October 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)
Venue Details: Seminar Room K, English Faculty, St Cross Building
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
Date: 17 November 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
Date: 1 December 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
Date: 25 January 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker s: Alex Tickell (Open University), Jennifer Wong (independent)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Autofiction and/as World Literature’
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Martha Swift (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
Date: 23 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA